kvell
/kvɛl
/verb [no object] North American informal
Feel happy and proud: forgive me if I’m kvelling, but this boy will make us proud...
- Oy, we're kvelling over here about how many mentions of Jews there are in today's New York Post!
- James kvelled over this and I really enjoyed it.
- Here was the great equalizer: we all kvelled in unison.
Origin
1960s: from Yiddish kveln, from Middle High German, literally 'well up'.
- mentalization
- mentalize
- mentally
- mentally defective
- mentally deficient
- mentally handicapped
- mental note
- mental patient
- mental reservation
- mental set
- mental test
- mental tester
- mental testing
- mentation
- mentee
- Mentha
- menthane
- menthene
- menthol
- mentholated
- Mentholatum
- menthol cigarette
- menthone
- menthyl
- menticide